Niamh Ui Bhriain of Save the 8th A pro-life group has begun a new online campaign called “12 weeks” to inform the electorate about the humanity of the unborn in preparation for the upcoming May referendum to remove the Eighth Amendment.
Save the 8th will show social media users a video of a scan of an unborn baby at 12 weeks gestation and ask them if the unborn child is deserving of constitutional rights. The video will be promoted to Facebook users over the age of 18 in Ireland and may be extended to other platforms.
The campaign says it will be asking media organisations to include such a video in their coverage of the referendum campaign.
Speaking about the campaign, Save the 8th’s Niamh Uí Bhriain said: “It is important that this debate is informed and that people have access to basic information. The Government is asking us to legalise abortion for any reason up to three months. In effect, the legislation proposed says that these babies are not human at all and will have no rights.
“In that context, a fully informed debate need not show graphic images. But it should show, at a very basic level, what a child in the womb at that age looks like. Every mother who has had a child in the modern era has seen one of these scans – but most voters have not,” she added.